Meta, LGBT and hate speech

Fury over Meta's relaxed hate speech policies: "I really think this is a precursor for genocide"
The social media giant will now allow users to question the mental health of LGBTQ people and compare minorities to diseases.
Meta changes hate speech rules, dropping LGBTQ protections
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, dropped some LGBTQ protections from its hate speech rules Tuesday amid a wider overhaul of the social media giant’s content moderation
LGBTQ+ Meta staff reportedly taking time off for ‘mental illness’ after hate speech policy change
LGBTQ+ Meta employees are reportedly calling themselves mentally ill and taking time off of work following the company’s hate speech policy change. Meta’s decision to allow users to comment that LGBTQ+ people have “mental illness” has sparked backlash from the company’s queer employees.
Meta’s new hate speech rules allow users to call LGBTQ people mentally ill
Meta will allow its billions of social media users to accuse people of being mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity.
Meta Drops Rules Protecting L.G.B.T.Q. Community as Part of Content Moderation Overhaul
The changes included allowing users to share “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation.”
Meta reviews hate speech guidelines, to allow labelling of LGBTQ people as mentally sick
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, has revised its hate speech guidelines to allow users to describe LGBTQ people as mentally ill. The change was announced in new guidelines released Tuesday by the media outfit.
Meta drops restrictions which protected LGBTQ community
Meta's global policy chief stated, "It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress but not on our platforms."
Black trans lawmaker asks UN to investigate Meta for new hate speech policies
Erika Hilton, a Black trans member of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, has asked the U.N. to investigate Mark Zuckerberg’s revelation that Meta will end fact-checking and allow anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech to go unchecked on its platforms, which include Facebook and Instagram.
Meta's updated hate speech policy now allows users to say LGBTQ people are 'mentally ill'
The revised policy maintains bans on insults targeting intellect or mental health but introduces an exception for allegations tied to sexual orientation or gender identity. These allowances reflect the political and religious discourse around LGBTQ+ issues and the casual use of terms like “weird.
Meta Rolls Back Hate Speech Rules as Zuckerberg Cites 'Recent Elections' as a Catalyst
It wasn’t just fact-checking that Meta scrapped from its platforms as it prepares for the second Trump administration
Meta’s New Hate Speech Rules To Impact Creators And Their Communities
The full impact of Meta’s “community management” approach to moderation remains to be seen, but social media creators will feel this shift acutely.
Meta now lets users call women 'property' and gay people 'mentally ill'
The tech giant overhauled Facebook, Instagram, and Threads' Hateful Conduct policy to be much more permissive.
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